On Friday 18 April 2008 14:21:11 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:35 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 April 2008 21:26:17 Larry Finger wrote:
> > > Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 17 April 2008 19:47:57 Larry Finger wrote:
> > > >> b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
> > > > 
> > > > Heh, with an LP-PHY. That is not going to be supported anytime, soon, 
> > > > unless
> > > > somebody else shows up and writes some specifications and code.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I didn't figure it would. I'll have to put on my RE hat again, check 
> > > out the LP-PHY handler, and generate some specs. After I do that, I 
> > > hope that someone else will actually write code.
> > > 
> > > Fortunately, I have a BCM4311/2 on the shelf that I can use in the 
> > > meantime. Once we have trial code, I can test it with my new device.
> > 
> > note that this device also has one of the newer wireless cores, so
> > there will also be some modifications needed for some non-PHY code.
> > And of course the changed backplane bits.
> 
> Not much of a difference, IIRC, except it has different ucode (which
> might support MBSS operation)

Yeah well, there are a few minor things that need to get adjusted.
Like the rfkill interrupt and stuff like that. grep the register pages
for the core revision and you will find most, if not all, of them.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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